Explo YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Explo went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 24
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Andrew ChenFounder
Gary LinFounder

What Explo does

Explo allows you to build customer-facing dashboards and reporting, lightning-fast. With Explo, you can create custom white-labeled dashboards for your application, share custom reports, or embed an AI report builder. - Dashboards: build fully white-labled dashboards for your application or enable your users to create their own dashboards from a library of charts you create - Report Builder: embed a full self-service analytics experience into your application, allowing your users to create their own tables and charts from scratch - Email: cadenced and one off emails to share analytics and data with your users - Explo AI: embed an AI experience into your product to enable your users to gain insights into their data Explo is built for product teams and developers. We power analytics of all sizes from YC companies to Fortune 500 companies.

Explo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Explo, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Explo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Embedded Analytics and Data Sharing Platform

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build Explo, a platform that lets product teams and developers embed customer-facing analytics directly into their applications. Users can create white-labeled dashboards, build custom reports, share data via email, and interact with AI-driven insights - all without building analytics features from scratch.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and operate in New York City, NY. After YC, the company will continue to be based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our team lives and where we've built and shipped Explo. Staying here keeps us close to customers and allows us to grow the team without disruption.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Explo YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Explo's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Explo would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.